✅ SOLVED Pipe tamper looking thingies...

[aquachigger]

I'm sure these have been posted before, but I can't seem to find them here. I recently found these at a colonial site and don't know what they are. I just posted a picture of my finds on my Facebook page and I've already had several people ask me about them. I don't know what to say! Any ideas?

 

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[aquachigger]

Someone has suggested a "Seal Top Spoon" and they do look correct for that. At least the small one. The larger one has what looks like something iron was affixed to it, so I'm doubtful on that one.

 

[Silver Searcher]

They are Cloak Hooks, the hooked ends are broken off.

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[aquachigger]

They are Cloak Hooks, the hooked ends are broken off.

SS

I looked in the UK Finds Data Base and the small one looks like the seal top spoon. I think the big one is not that, but I couldn't find any reference in a search for a "cloak hook". Do you have any reference to one or does it go by another name over there?

 

[Jason in Enid]

I tend to lean towards them being seal handles, discarded when the seal broke. They are too large for pipe tampers. Colonial times the pipes were MUCH smaller, and these look too big for current pipes.

 

[Silver Searcher]

I looked in the UK Finds Data Base and the small one looks like the seal top spoon. I think the big one is not that, but I couldn't find any reference in a search for a "cloak hook". Do you have any refere nce to one or does it go by another name over there?

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[Silver Searcher]

If you search Pipe tampers, and check the posts made by Me, Crusader and Shaun, you will see were we joke about them. A common find here.

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[CRUSADER]

Agreed, the top of a 17th C spoon.
UK Finds Database - - - UKDFD

You confused things with a picture of a clothes hook & this item.

 

[Broken knee]

The larger one with the iron is probably a coat hook the other one is a seal top spoon end. And yes they were used as pipe tampers once the spoon broke. I have found many of them, I have yet to find the remainder of the handles or the spoon bowls which leads me to beleave they were not hole spoons discarded in the fields and broken by farm equipment, but used as tampers. HH That is a very old site with finds like that hit that area hard mister and you will be rewarded!!
Broken knee

 

[aquachigger]

Agreed, the top of a 17th C spoon.
UK Finds Database - - - UKDFD

You confused things with a picture of a clothes hook & this item.

I've already received a the pipe tamper suggestion on Facebook. So is the larger one a spoon handle also? There appears to be iron rusted to the end. What's up with that? Thanks...

 

[CRUSADER]

I've already received a the pipe tamper suggestion on Facebook. So is the larger one a spoon handle also? There appears to be iron rusted to the end. What's up with that? Thanks...

I just told you, the iron one is a coat hanger & the other is a spoon end.

 

[aquachigger]

I just told you, the iron one is a coat hanger & the other is a spoon end.

Thanks, I understand now.

 

[MaineRelic]

Thank you AquaChigger for posting this find . Thank you , Silversearcher , Brokenknee . and Crusader for the archeology lesson . I also found one on Jan. 12th of this year at one of my earliest sites . I thought it was a cloak hook , Though I had dated it right . I told my wife i thought it was 17th century . Thank you all for the enlightenment . It made my day as I was still unsure about the piece . My third confirmed 17th century find from this site . I can't thank you Pro's enough . M.R. P.S. I am posting a pic of my newly identified find.

 

[CRUSADER]

Thank you AquaChigger for posting this find . Thank you , Silversearcher , Brokenknee . and Crusader for the archeology lesson . I also found one on Jan. 12th of this year at one of my earliest sites . I thought it was a cloak hook , Though I had dated it right . I told my wife i thought it was 17th century . Thank you all for the enlightenment . It made my day as I was still unsure about the piece . My third confirmed 17th century find from this site . I can't thank you Pro's enough . M.R. P.S. I am posting a pic of my newly identified find.

No probs, they have caused some confusion in the UK & they have been misidentified on the PAS as pipe tampers. Plus until I knew, I had one broken so it looked like an old chess piece (pawn).